Re: New to git: sorry for obvious question.

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:56:00AM +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:

 Hi,

 I've moved a project from CVS on sourceforge to git on repo.or.cz.  I
 want a local mirror on my own home server, so that it appears amongst
 the projects shown by my own gitweb set up, and so it gets caught by
 my backup system.  I've created the mirror with

   git clone --bare <remote-url> <local-dir>

 and that seems fine.  But how do I now keep it up to date.  I was
 guessing a cron job doing some sort of git pull, but pull doesn't
 look to work on --bare proj.git type repositories.

You want git fetch. Git pull also updates the working copy, which you
don't have.

Also, git clone --bare doesn't set up the origin configuration, and I
have to do it by hand:
  git config remote.origin.url "$url"
  git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*"

As for keeping clones up to date, I include a script I use daily for
that purpose.

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